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8th Grade Narrative
Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Concise | giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words |
Nuance | a quality of something that is not easy to notice but may be important |
Function | to tell a series of events |
Negation | when a writer provides instances of what something is not |
Coherence | putting stories together so that they make sense |
Mood | the emotions that a text evokes from the reader |
Point of View | the writer's way of deciding who is telling the story to whom |
Tone | the mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel |
Denotation | The meaning of a word |
Connotation | a feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal or main meaning |
Pacing | is the rate at which a story develops |
Epic | long narrative poem recounting heroic deeds |
Diction | refers to the words the writer chooses to use |
Allegory | A story in a story - the hidden story is usually about politics, religion, or morality |